Spare me the cult of Sally Rooney
Spare me the ‘chic lit’ cult
In lockdown, green privilege is real
No one has stood up for the lawnless in lockdown
How I finally came to terms with my sister’s death
‘Grief is the price we pay for love,’ the Queen once wrote. This memoir is steeped in the pain of…
Having a baby is like joining a cult — full of other, more capable mothers
When you’re not a mother it’s hard to imagine what motherhood is like. Anyone you know who becomes one assures…
Carry on up the Zambezi
I loved this book so much I was appalled. Why, when bookshops are stacked full of memoirs by authors who…
‘Bob Dylan? He’s like Confucius’: Cerys Matthews interviewed
‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside’ was a Christmas classic for more than half a century until people suddenly began to worry…
What makes Kim Jong-il cute — and Barack Obama not?
Ordinarily, I love books that answer questions I’ve never asked, but Simon May’s baffling book has blown my mind. The…
My ex-lover’s T-shirt can join the other tragic tat in the Museum of Broken Relationships
I loved a man. But our affair was nasty, brutish and short. Copious weeping was my un-tart retort. All that’s…
Michael Gove is the leader the ‘leave’ campaign needs
The leader that quiet ‘leave’ voters are missing
Feminism is over, the battle is won. Time to move on
Victory has left 21st-century feminists in a morass of social-media sniping
My eco-home nightmare
Buying an eco-home? Expect stifling springs and summers
The teachers who (quietly) miss Michael Gove
Meet the teachers who are (quietly) grateful to the former education secretary
